Rest in Peace Bo Griffin
Radio and television personality Bo Griffin has died following a short battle with intestinal cancer. She was 51.
Griffin Apparently was unaware she had cancer and after feeling some pain back in January, she went to the hospital to have it checked out and received her grim diagnosis.
Griffin said she had loved fashion since she was old enough to scribble drawings. She left Greenville for New York in the 1980s with dreams becoming a fashion designer. Instead, she was bitten by the acting bug and performed in a number of off-Broadway productions. She later attended a two-year institute in New York, to study engineering and communications. She got her first radio gig at a station in Durham, N.C., where she quickly climbed the ranks to become program director.
She later moved to Miami and became a popular radio personality for Hot 105 and Power 96 stations. Then it was on to Los Angeles to co-host the Fox morning TV show, “That’s Life” and was an entertainment reporter for “Extra”. She was also host of “Blue Ribbon,” a show that aired on Turner South Network and highlighted Southern culture.
During the years that she owned Goddess, Griffin traveled back and forth to and from bigger cities, balancing her television career and hometown life as a boutique owner.
“Projects would just come and they would be great projects, so I’d go and do my assignment and come back home,” she said then. “I always look at my showbiz life as a great assignment. I do it and I come home. I love it.”
